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SEC Indoor Track & Field Championships
SEC Indoor Championships on Tap for Alabama Track & Field Teams This Weekend
2/22/2017 11:59:00 AM | Track & Field, Cross Country
Crimson Tide looks to continue record-setting 2017 performance at conference meet
TUSCALOOSA, Ala. – The Alabama men's and women's track & field teams will send 53 student-athletes to the 2017 Southeastern Conference Indoor Track & Field Championships in Nashville, Tenn., Feb. 24-25. The meet will be held at the Vanderbilt Multi-Purpose Facility.
The battle for the SEC crown will get underway Friday with the men's heptathlon at 10 a.m. CT. Field events begin Friday with the men's high jump at 1:30 p.m. Running events start at 4:30 p.m. with the prelims of the women's 60-meter hurdles. On Saturday, the field events begin at 11 a.m. with the women's high jump, while the running events get underway with the final of the women's 60-meter hurdles at 2 p.m.
How to Follow the 2017 SEC Indoor Championships
Live results for both days of this weekend's conference meet can be found at primetimetiming.com. Additionally, the meet will be streamed live on SEC Network+ Friday from 4:25-9:30 p.m. CT and Saturday from 1:45-6:45 p.m. CT via WatchESPN.com and the WatchESPN app. The championships will also air as part of a two-hour highlight show on ESPN Sunday, Feb. 26, at 7 p.m. CT.
In the Rankings
The Crimson Tide men and women are ranked No. 9 in their respective U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association (USTFCCCA) Indoor National Team Rankings released Feb. 20. Regionally, the Tide men are No. 1 while the women are No. 2 in the South Region.
Head Coach Dan Waters' Outlook
"We have been focused on peaking for this weekend in Nashville. I'm pleased with where both teams are at this point in the season. We've had strong performances in the relays, hurdles and throws so if they continue to perform and we see some strong individual performances in other areas, this could be a big meet."
Alabama at the SEC Indoor Championships
Throughout the years, the Alabama men's program has seized five SEC indoor titles (1958, 1959, 1961, 1962 and 1972). Arkansas leads all teams with 21 championships, while Tennessee (18) and Florida (seven) are the only teams that have more SEC indoor titles than the Crimson Tide. The women have one SEC Championship (1992) in the 33-year history of the meet. LSU leads all teams with 12 championships, as Florida (7) and Arkansas (6) round out the top three.
Alabama Men's SEC Indoor Meet History
• Alabama athletes own three current SEC Indoor Track & Field Championship meet records: Kirani James in the 400 meters (2011 - 44.80); Stephen Bolt in the mile (1976 - 3:59.4); and Joel Rop, Terrell Mickens, Emmanuel Bor and Fred Samoei in the Distance Medley Relay (9:39.06 - 2011).
• The Crimson Tide has seven Cliff Harper Trophy titles (high-points scorer at the SEC Indoor Championships) all-time, ranking third behind Arkansas and Florida. Alabama's winners include Henry Orum (1972, 1974), Calvin Smith (1983), Clive Wright (1991), Tim Broe (2000) and David Kimani (2001, 2002). Alabama and Arkansas are the only two programs to have two student-athletes win back-to-back titles.
• Alabama's highest team points total in the SEC indoor meet is 94.5 scored in 1983, when the Tide finished second in the team standings (Tennessee - 127).
• Alabama's 10 best team points totals at an SEC indoor meet: 94.5 in 1983 (2nd place), 91.5 in 1984 (2nd), 91 in 1985 (3rd), 90 in 1978 (3rd), 85.5 in 1986 (tie-3rd), 76 in 2014 (4th), 74 in 2002 (3rd), 71 in 1979 (3rd), 63 in 2001 (5th), 2000 (4th) and 1972 (1st). Alabama's men's team eclipsed 60 team points two other times (61 in 1987 and 60 in 1999).
• The most events won by an Alabama men's team at an SEC indoor meet is seven in 1972, when Henry Orum (60 hurdles and long jump) won two events along with victories by Jerry Cargile (440), John Hannah (shot put), Jan Johnson (pole vault), Tom Whatley (60) and the mile relay (Cargile, Sullivan, Russell and Faust).
• Crimson Tide athletes have won 78 individual SEC champions in the history of the SEC Indoor Championships.
• Alabama has recorded 88 SEC Indoor Championships event wins since the Tide began competing in 1957.
Alabama Women's SEC Indoor Meet History
• Former Alabama sprinter Remona Burchell holds the SEC Indoor Track & Field Championships meet record in the 60 meters. She won the event in 2015 in a time of 7.08.
• Alabama has won one SEC Women's Indoor Championship (1994).
• Since that 1994 SEC indoor title, Alabama's highest finish in the women's standings is a sixth-place finish (70.5 points) in 2006.
• Alabama's 130 points scored in the 1988 SEC indoor meet is the most scored by the Crimson Tide women at an SEC indoor meet. Alabama placed second in the team standings that year (LSU - 141).
• In 1986, Alabama won the team title with a school-best 125.3 points scored, but that title was later vacated by an NCAA and SEC ruling.
• Alabama has not had more than one individual women's SEC indoor champion since 1994, when four athletes and one relay team won events.
• Alabama's most recent SEC indoor women's individual champion is Quanesha Burks, who won the long jump in 2016 with a mark of 22-1 3/4.
• Since 1994, 10 Alabama women's athletes have won SEC indoor titles in individual events: Safiya Ingram (2000- shot put); Beau Walker twice (2005 - 60m hurdles/2006 - 55m hurdles); Trish Bartholomew (2008 - 400m); Kim Laing (2010 - 60m hurdles); Wilamena Hopkins (2011 - shot put); Krystle Schade (2012 - high jump); Alexis Paine (2013 - pole vault); Remona Burchell (2015 - 60m) and Quanesha Burks (2016 - long jump).
• The most events won by an Alabama women's team at an SEC indoor meet is seven in 1988, when Pauline Davis (55m and 200m) and Flora Hyacinth (long jump and triple jump) both won two events along with victories by Evelyn Adiru (55m), Heidi Olafsdottir (3,000m) and Elspeth Turner (5,000m). In 1994, Alabama won six women's events (200m, 800m, mile, 3,000m, distance medley relay and 4x400-meter relay).
• The only Crimson Tide athlete to win the women's Cliff Harper Trophy title (high-points scorer at the SEC Indoor Championships) is Becki Wells, who scored 20 points while winning the mile and 3,000 meters to lead Alabama to the team title in 1994.
• The Crimson Tide has had 78 individual SEC champions in the history of the SEC Womens Indoor Championships.
• Alabama has recorded 36 SEC Indoor Championships individual event wins and seven relay champions since the Tide began competing in 1984.
Up Next
Alabama will compete in the NCAA Indoor Track & Field Championships, March 10-11, in College Station, Texas. Texas A&M will be the host institution for this year's meet.
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